Chapter 6 of “Stalking Death”
[…] you. And you go to the doctor, and he tells you that, quite unexpectedly, you have an advanced form of cancer—lymphoma or something like that—and you have six months approximately. And he sketches out a number of treatment options. You’re a bit stunned, so your wife asks most of the questions, and then you […]
Chapter 3 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] self or a sense of other. That is it arises in the seventh consciousness, which is the sense of self, or it arises in one of the six consciousnesses, which are associated with the six senses. Student: So you’d say it leaves the basic ground. Student: Leaves kun gzhi. Ken: Well, you have just […]
Chapter 2 of “Buddhahood Without Meditation”
[…] yoga is primarily about building capacity, and can also be very helpful for developing willingness. All the answers are in here, on page 34. There is a six-line guru yoga prayer, which comes from the Kagyu Ngöndro. I’ve always liked this prayer. It’s a prayer I learned back in the early 1970s, and I’ve […]
Chapter 5 of “Mahayana Mind Training”
[…] the blah. Or, we can just do it with all sentient beings. Or we can work through particular sequences as I described this morning such as the six realms. And we can do that in the mythological form or in the practical … not so much practical but the, how they’re realized in the lives […]
Chapter 8 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] the next thing you begin to appreciate is that we don’t really experience it as it is. There are all of these filters, which we call the six realms, and you begin to appreciate that as long as you’re working in this filtered experience, thing’s just don’t work out in a very good way. In […]
Chapter 36 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] the first level, and there’s a list of them. And then footnote three, you’ll see that there’s another list there. And footnote five, another list. And footnote six, another list. And on page 450 and 451, there’s just one list after another. And so I have the impression that you had masses of scholars […]
Chapter 32 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] we were talking about with karma—the genesis of distraction, and the conditions of distraction, or which foster distraction. So when we move down now to the next six topics—the primary characteristics of agitation, the cause of agitation, the faults of agitation, and the primary characteristics of solitude, the cause of solitude, and the good […]
Chapter 8 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] been more suppressed or whatever because you haven’t had the capacity of attention in order to be able to experience it at all. So it’s a mix, six of one, half dozen of the other. You know, it’s very interesting. Anybody here play World of Warcraft? I have a student who’s a really avid […]
Chapter 1 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] going.” So he started to talk again, figured out something else to say, and when he finished that, Ajahn Chah said, “Keep going.” I think it was something like six hours later. And Ajahn Sumedho said, “It was horrible. I stuttered. I stammered. I repeated myself, over and over again. I said inane things. I kept saying […]
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[…] Tibetan tradition. And I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t visualize. I couldn’t see myself as Chenrezi. I couldn’t feel anything resembling compassion for the beings in the six realms of existence. My legs hurt, and I was in constant pain. For me it was a miserable disaster — unpleasant, confusing, and disappointing. In desperation, I […]
Chapter 7 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] practice, just kept doing it. And then I didn’t know whether I was going to die or not. And I just kept going. And then after about six months, my hair started to grow back, and my nails grew back, and all my digestive problems went away. And then after that, then I was […]
Chapter 2 of “Learning Mahamudra”
Mahamudra: the stamp of emptiness Ken: This is the second class in our six-part series on mahamudra. Mahamudra is a form of meditation. It is also a system of teaching, or a tradition of a body of teaching. And the word mahamudra itself is Sanskrit. The word maha means great. The word mudra has […]
Chapter 2 of “The Jewel in the Lotus”
[…] energy. And they’re consuming my experience of life, so I’m going to do something about that. And that leads you into the workings of karma, and the six realms, and all of that stuff. Now, many of you who have been exposed to Vajrayana and traditional Tibetan teachings will know this last line as: Bless […]
Chapter 13 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] like this. [Ken assumes a relaxed, floating pose.] The other guy’s like this. The dog’s asleep. [Laughter] The rooster is perfectly composed and the caption reads, “ Six months after falling into a bottomless …” [Laughter] Very good meditation instruction. So I mean Jigme Lingpa says here: Don’t look at what arises: be what […]
Chapter 8 of “A Trackless Path II”
[…] This isn’t so good for one’s practice. So… Do not think about anything; let all ambition drop. It would be much better if we we’re doing a six-month retreat, then this one would really bite. You know, just like, “What am I going to achieve in this retreat? Nothing. [Laughter] Can we review the […]